Liang (Leon) Cheng
Professor and Chair
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Toledo
Dr. Liang Cheng is Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Toledo. He pioneered the research on services computing of mobile ad hoc networked appliances, an early form of the Internet of Things (IoT), in 2000. While serving as a Computer Science and Engineering faculty at Lehigh University, he was a founding member of the INE (Integrated Networks for Electricity) research cluster and a leadership council member of the I-CPIE (Institute for Cyber Physical Infrastructure & Energy). His work was funded by the U.S. DARPA, DOE, DOT, NSF, PITA, and companies such as ABB, Agere Systems, East Penn Manufacturing, Ingersoll-Rand, and PPL.